Student Success Statement

" Take care of yourself and everything else will fall

into place."

Coach David Diamont

Reflection:  Before you take care of anybody else you should take care of yourself so you could know what to do. If you are not in the best conditions you will fail in making sure everybody else is ok.

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Ten Tips for Being

More Truthful

By Barbara A. Lewis

1.  Make a commitment to tell the truth

2. Tell someone about your commitment

3. Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation or reason.

4. Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.

5. Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of or leave out part of it.

6.  Don’t indulge in little white lies or cover-ups.

7. What out for silent lies.

8. When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.

9. Talk to yourself (Ask yourself,” How do I really feel about this? What’s the best thing to do? How can I keep my commitment to myself?”

10.             Treat yourself when you tell the truth even when it’s hard to do.

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Students College Planning Guide

In the 9th grade

•  Take the most difficult classes you can handle
• Take interest and skills assessments to help you explore careers that interest you
• Develop good study habits
• Practice setting and reaching goals
• Volunteer in your communityer
• Participate in extra-curricular activities

In the 10th grade

• Investigate career options and the education required for those careers
• Talk with your family about paying for college
• Take the PSAT to prepare for the SAT, and identify areas where you need improvement
• Explore internships
• Stay focused on your schoolwork, review your high school education plan, take the most difficult classes you can handle, volunteer in your community and participate in extra-curricular activities.

In the 11th grade

• Request materials from colleges that interest you, and visit their websites
• Attend college and financial aid fairs
• Take the SAT to identify areas where you need improvement
• Sign up for classes that will earn you college credit
• Develop your skills through internship or apprenticeship
• Stay focused on your schoolwork, review your high school graduation plan, take the most difficult classes you can handle, volunteer in your community and participate in extra-curricular activities.

In the 12th grade

• Stay focused on your schoolwork, review your high school graduation plan, take the most difficult classes you can handle, sign up for classes that will earn you extra credit, volunteer in your community and participate in extra-curricular activities.
• Arrange campus visits to those schools that interest you (if you haven't already done so)
• Search and apply for private scholarships
• Retake the SAT
• Make a list of important admissions and financial aid deadlines
• Ask for recommendations  (if required) from teachers, counselor, and others who can comment on your abilities and talents
• Apply to four to six colleges that interest you, do not wait until just before the deadline
• Complete the FAFSA (Free Application For Federal Student Aid) as soon as possible
• Review you SAR (Student Aid Report) and if you make corrections return it as soon as possible
• Get a summer job to earn money for college

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Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 13

If you feel you do not naturally have all those characteristics, then do not despair. Each of them can be accomplished by your own application. You can use meditation and visualization techniques to initiate your vision, and they can certainly be learned both for that purpose and for each step you take to reach your goals. Simply visualize your desired goals, that of being a star student, a champion of doing what is right, and see yourself working hard to become outstanding, and you’re your dreams and vision will materialize as you pursue these objectives. Setting goals and objectives can be a personal or business technique that can be learnt. You can develop inner strength to succeed if you apply yourself to doing just that; that will enable you to recover from setbacks more easily.

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Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 12

What is important to you is that you, as you start to reach milestones in your ambitions, you appreciate your own achievements. It is a boost, of course, if others appreciate what you have done too, but appreciating yourself will strengthen your self-belief, and reinforce your determination to succeed. Some of the key characteristics you will find in those who are successful are perseverance, prepared to research, plan and work hard, practice a lot even when things do not seem to be going well, and an ability to recover and learn from setbacks, At the outset of whatever it is you are trying to succeed in, a strong vision of your future, planning, and setting yourself achievable targets can all play an important role.

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 Student Success Strategies

Be Wise--Never Use Drugs or Alcohol

Now a days we all see drugs and alcohol everywhere including T.V. Many children now see this as something normal and thus something not to be feared. Because of all these celebrities that talk about how fun it is to do all these things like get wasted, high, or both. What they don’t talk about is their deteriorating health and well-being. That is because they hardly notice it at all. All the consequences hit them hard and then they get all sorts of illnesses. Both drugs and alcohol are deadly. Not only do you hurt yourself but you hurt everyone around you who are just watching you throw your life away using those awful substances. Drinking alcohol causes damage to the whole body but a lot of it is center toward the liver. You can get liver failure, impotence, cancer, heart disease, and many psychological problems. Drugs too can cause all these things but it also does damage to the nervous system. They both make you do things that when the next morning comes you will regret. After drinking a lot of alcohol the next day you will have a hangover which is a pulsing headache.

Acquiring the Habits of

Highly Successful Students

Part 11

Whether studying or in general life, planning is an imperative skill. Here, we must strictly set the hours for studying, and should promote regularity in doing so. Don’t put off your studies to the last moment (just before the test), because in that moment you will be feeding stress and pressure, and both factors will prove disturbing for your learning; that’s the high price of procrastination. During the exam, it’s important to forget about panic and stress. And if you are planning for your thesis, you may find this post useful. Other planning tip I frequently give s that,     when you are assigned a homework, try to solve it as quickly as possible, several days before the required date, but don’t try to complete it perfectly and  don’t summit it immediately. I always recommend doing homework early, but deliver it at the last possible day.

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